> Punjab Leads in Quality of Governance during Third Year with 65.5% Score followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 63.0%, Balochistan at 60.5% and Sindh at 59.7%; PILDAT Releases Comparative Provincial Score Cards on Quality of Governance 2015-2016

Quality of GovernanceFebruary 17, 2017Islamabad

Punjab
Leads in Quality of Governance during Third Year with 65.5% Score followed by
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 63.0%, Balochistan at 60.5% and Sindh at 59.7%; PILDAT
Releases Comparative Provincial Score Cards on Quality of Governance 2015-2016

Punjab bags highest Scores in Rule
of Law, Management of Economy and Service Delivery, while KP leads in Social
Indicators and Administrative Effectiveness

Parameters garnering a score of
60% and above are indicative of a significant improvement in governance
from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016: Punjab demonstrated significant improvement
in 22 parameters, followed by KP with significant improvement in 13 parameters,
Sindh in 11 parameters and Balochistan in 10 parameters

Punjab had the highest scores of
all the Provinces in 11 out of 25 parameters, while Balochistan had the
highest scores of all the Provinces in 7 parameters, KP in 6 parameters
and Sindh in only one parameter

Punjab leads the way in the Use
of Technology for Better Governance with a score of 74.1% - way ahead of
the other three provinces

Governance scores in Punjab and
KP deteriorated in 1 parameter each, while governance scores in Balochistan
and Sindh deteriorated in 3 parameters each compared to 2014-2015; additionally,
one parameter in Sindh recorded no change in governance

Highest and lowest scored Governance
Assessment Parameters for each Province during the third year of governance
(2015-2016) below:

Punjab scored the highest in Transparency (79.4%) and the lowest
in Management of Population Growth (47.8%)

KP scored the highest in Devolution of Powers to Local
Governments (86.9%) and the lowest in Public Transport (40.9%)

Balochistan scored the highest in Anti-Corruption (73.8%)
and the lowest in Poverty Alleviation (38.8%)

Sindh scored the highest in Merit-Based Recruitments (85.6%)
and the lowest in Investment Friendliness (40.0%)

February 15: Quality of Governance in Pakistan’s
Provinces is, in general, improving according to PILDAT Comparative Provincial
Score Cards on Quality of Governance in third year: 2015-2016. In a comparative
analysis, Punjab leads with a score of 65.5% followed by Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with a score of 63.0%, Balochistan with a
score of 60.5% and Sindh at 59.7% at the end
of the third financial year of elected Provincial Governments in office since
2013.

PILDAT’s Score Cards assessing the Quality
of Governance are based on the change (marginal improvement, significant improvement,
deterioration or no-change) in the quality of governance between the second
(2014-2015) and the third (2015-2016) years of governance in the provinces.
The Assessment is based on 25 Governance Parameters under 5 Pillars of Governance
including Rule of Law, Management of Economy, Social Indicators, Service Delivery
and Administrative Effectiveness. Parameters garnering a score of 60% and above
are indicative of a significant improvement in governance from 2014-2015 to
2015-2016

Provinces of Punjab and KP have received positive
scores (i.e., above 50%) in all but one parameter each, while Balochistan has
received positive scores in 22 out of 25 governance parameters. Sindh, consistently
the last ranking province in quality of governance from 3 consecutive years,
has received positive scores in 21 out of 25 parameters.

Punjab is the highest scorer among all Provinces
in Transparency at 79.4%, while KP leads in Devolution
of Powers to Local Governments at 86.9%. For the second year in a row,
Gender Equality in Punjab and KP is among the lowest scoring
parameters, at 54.7% in Punjab and 54.4% in KP.

Balochistan leads among all the Provinces in
Anti-Corruption with the highest score of 73.8% owing to the
improved performance of the Anti-Corruption Establishment in recovering embezzled
funds and increasing convictions. Balochistan’s lowest governance score
has been recorded in Poverty Alleviation (38.8%), while Sindh
has garnered the second highest score among all Provinces in this area at 74.4%.
Governance in Sindh with regards to Investment Friendliness
was recorded at its weakest with 40.0% score.

The comparative analysis on quality of governance
across Pakistan’s Provinces is carried out by PILDAT since 2013 to highlight
key areas of strengths and potential areas requiring improvement in the quality
of governance. The rationale behind PILDAT's initiative on Assessment of the
Quality of Governance is that as democracy progresses in Pakistan, public focus
should be on the performance of democracy, which is distinct from the process
of democracy. Through this Score Card, PILDAT seeks to understand the extent
to which the democratic Governments have delivered to their citizens in terms
of providing ‘Good Governance’. The initiative is by no means an
exercise to criticize the performance of the elected Governments but is carried
out as a collaborative effort through data received from Governments to enable
informed and fact-based assessments regarding quality of governance across Provinces.

Methodology Outline
In a continuation of the previous assessments, PILDAT’s indigenously developed
scoring mechanism assigns on a scale of 1-5, based on the comparative performance
of all Provincial Governments. A Government gets a score above 3 for a particular
indicator if percentage change from financial year (i.e. July 1 to June 30)
2014-2015 to financial year 2015-2016 is more than the average percentage change
across all Provinces. A lower score is assigned for the inverse. The scores
are based on both policy (25% weightage) and its implementation (75% weightage)
across 25 areas of governance.

Comparative Provincial Scores on all
Parameters Quality of Governance during Third Year: 2015-2016

The data for the Provincial Score Cards was
requested by PILDAT and was provided by the Provincial Governments. It was supplemented
with published data. Several meetings were held with each Government’s various
Departments during the process of this assessment. A draft of the analysis and
Score Card was also shared with each Government for feedback before final release.

The complete Provincial Score Cards
on Assessment of the Quality of Governance can be accessed at: